Namibia

Bordering South Africa and Botswana in the south and east, and bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, this immense country has four distinct natural environments: the barren sand dunes of the Namib Desert which runs the length of the country’s coastline; the semi-arid mountainous plateau of the country’s central interior where the country’s capital, Windhoek, lies; the low-lying north-east and south-east, which are part of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert and South Africa’s Karoo, and finally, far to the north, the wilderness plains that surround the shimmering expanse of the Etosha Pan.

It is a country ravaged by time and nature, a place of limitless horizons, gouged into deep ‘Grand Canyon’ valleys, sculpted into massive desert dunes and twisted by ancient volcanic activity into rocky, inhospitable escarpments and savage mountain slopes. It’s like the mixing bowl for the rest of Africa, the place where the continent’s elements were gathered and shaped, and then shared out leaving Namibia with the hardened, stony crust. But for all its red rocky heart and desert edging, it is a magnificent country - raw and wild and prehistoric. That is what Namibia is all about - a country with something for everyone.

Read our travel blog:  Wings over Namibia